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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Trump's Castle Casino Resort.
(c) Gucci.
(d) Disney World.

2. After a baby is born, what do rural Chinese people bury outside the home if it is a girl, and inside if it is a boy?
(a) A lock of hair.
(b) An offering to the gods.
(c) The placenta.
(d) The umbilical cord.

3. Which of these places is NOT mentioned as a new home of a Chinese baby?
(a) Boston.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

4. What is the period of Mao Zedong's reforms called?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) The Golden Age.
(c) The Great Leap Forward.
(d) The Mao Dynasty.

5. Where does Karin live in her early journalistic career?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) London.
(c) Rio de Janeiro.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is NOT a source of the author's story?

2. According to a folk tale Karin read, what are adopted children in China sometimes called?

3. What is the local legend about the founding of Guanzhou?

4. Which of these is NOT an item mentioned as having been found with an abandoned baby?

5. What is Jiang Xiao Yu holding when she meets her parents?

(see the answer key)

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